topic Re: Cookbook/Saved Recipes Gone?! in Speakers and Displays

Cookbook/Saved Recipes Gone?!

AbandonShip — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:42:51 GMT

My Hub Max lives in my kitchen and despite the recent degrading experience google smart home

products have had recently, I’ve held on because i’ve spent hundreds of dollars on 8 units throughout my home.

But, the recent removal of cookbook/saved recipes is just ridiculous. This was a GREAT feature for my frequent cooking. I could pull up favorite recipes and google would display them in large print, step by step.

Now, it’s directing me to use the browser? Which ALWAYS crashes by the way. So now, this is basically a feature that’s gone.

Im upset that Google is REMOVING features instead of improving or at least maintaining.

This is shameful practice for those of us that invested in their smart home products. I guess I’ll be moving to alexa!

Google! Bring back cookbook/saved recipes!!!

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ozlefty — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:26:39 GMT

I couldn't agree more - where was the notification of the change. Google should not be allowed to remove features that people utilise.

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tdwrathbone — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:20:24 GMT

We are considering switching ourselves because of this. It's the main thing I use my hub for!

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AbandonShip — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:23:40 GMT

I agree, besides being a speaker and being another device for home commands like lights, I don't use it for anything else. it's a glorified picture frame now. such a disappointment

Re: Cookbook/Saved Recipes Gone?!

AbandonShip — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:27:15 GMT

Right?! I mean this seems like such a basic feature that goes a long way. Why on earth would they remove it? and then direct us to the god awful browser experience? which always crashes?

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ozlefty — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:00:45 GMT

I bet they decide to remove the shopping list next 🤔

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SNFLWR81 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:12:30 GMT

The removal of this feature alone will make me quit buying Google products. The cookbook wad the main use for my Google nest in my kitchen. I'll be looking into an ECHO now.

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tdwrathbone — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:17:49 GMT

I ordered an Echo last night to try. This feature was the only reason I got the hub. I cook a lot, meal prep, dinner, bread, desserts. They had an Echo 8 refurb pretty cheap. So, this may be the beginning of a swap. Take note Google.... You're quarterly sales will show minus 1!

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ozlefty — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 04:51:11 GMT

I picked up an Echo show today and it looks like a great replacement, my google will become an alarm clock, sad but I am happy with the Echo

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ozlefty — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 04:53:02 GMT

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ZadiusC — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:45:31 GMT

This is shameful, they did the same thing with the shopping lists. They removed features and made it terrible to use until I cracked and purchased a third party shopping list app to work with my Google home and then like a year later they removed support for third party shopping apps when then came out with their new version!!! Now they remove cookbook support? So what, we go find a third party app to do it well, because it's not like it was a great user experience to start with, and then they stop supporting that as well. I already tried to switch to Alexa, it wasn't a great experience. Now I have Google homes throughout my house and I'm pissed. Maybe it's time to try Microsoft products, I wonder if they have 'home' products?...

Hey Google, STOP insulting and disrespecting your customer base, we're not infinite and we pay your bills.

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ZadiusC — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:00:38 GMT

Just read that they actually removed 17 features after laying off 12,000 employees last year. I'm a software developer, so I'm betting these features have bugs and they have no one to fix them now.

Here's the list of removed features if anyone wants to read what else they hacked off, https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/13971691?hl=en

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Ferguson1 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:29:28 GMT

I genuinely am so distraught by this. Ours was a gift and I only used it for recipes and music. Like how was the cookbook one of the least used features?????? And mine is saying I need to sign in to see my saves and then tells me Google uses Javascript and that the browser, on the hub itself mind you, supposedly doesn't support it..... ummm???? Sorry. My search works just fine, the browser is working just fine, other google sites like Gmail are JUST FINE sooooo... why can't I cook?

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timwnitram — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:35:14 GMT

Agreed, the cookbook was the main reason I bought the home device.

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AbandonShip — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:46:00 GMT

yes, it did have bugs. often times it would say “sorry i don’t know that” while completing the function just fine. Other times it couldn’t save recipes, etc. but even w the bugs it was worth using and helpful in the kitchen.

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AbandonShip — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:47:29 GMT

let us know how the cooking feature is!

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AbandonShip — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:47:56 GMT

agreed. so disappointed!!

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AbandonShip — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:49:10 GMT

so you CAN still have recipes displayed but in the form of answers - so while ingredients pull up, they are fleeting. lasting say about 90 seconds. This is so laughable !!

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An81 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 15:31:50 GMT

Agree. One of the only things I used it for

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AbandonShip — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 15:34:26 GMT

i really can’t understand how it was an underutilized product. if it was it’s because of bugs so it’s like a toxic cycle of features w google. if we want it back we have to let them know! send feedback to google !